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Three Tips for Growing Healthy Bearded Iris

Annabel Hanna runs Sunshine Iris and Daylily Nursery from the family sheep property, Erin, north-west of Hay in the Western Riverina. Surrounded by irises that have thrived through drought, flood a...

3 things to do in your garden this September

Spring can become busy very quickly, so this month is less about trying to do everything and more about getting a few useful things sorted before the garden really takes off. Here are three things ...

A Day in France with Le Sac Co-Founder Trisha Dixon Burkitt

Morning here in France begins much as it does at Bobundara, in quietude. So peaceful. First light comes through the windows of my bedroom, which looks out over leafy plane trees onto a little squar...

Colleen Southwell's three tips for first-time gardeners

We’ve shared a little of Colleen Southwell's garden thinking before, and there’s still much more to borrow from her way of seeing a garden. She pays attention to what a place is already telling you...

Gardens & Creativity – Dries Van Noten

I first came across Dries Van Noten's work early in my fashion career, and it's stayed with me ever since, that fearless clash of print on print, colour against colour, in a way that somehow always...

Three Steps To Stop Kikuyu Naturally with Honey Atkinson

Kikuyu is one of those grasses that rarely understands where the lawn ends and the garden begins. Left to its own devices, it will happily creep through beds, weave itself around plants and reappea...

A Day in the Garden - Megan Morton's life at Mimosa Moon

There's a version of this story that goes: Sydney's most in-demand stylist trades the busy city for the quiet country. It's a neat story. It's also not quite Megan... The truer version starts on a ...

Three Heritage Garden Tools You Need To Know With The Ryans

Some garden tools are made for a season. Others have been shaped, tested and refined over generations. Continuing our Three Things With series, we’re speaking with Matt Ryan of F.D. Ryan, an Austra...

Three Tips for Transforming Bare Ground Into a Thriving Garden With Aleisha Lynch

Third-generation horticulturist Aleisha Lynch has gardening woven deeply into her story. Based in South Australia’s beautiful Barossa Valley, Aleisha is a qualified garden designer, passionat...

Trisha's Meanderings: When Snow Changes Everything

Writing about snow will hopefully bring on the long-awaited snowfall in the mountains this winter. Waking up to a wonderland of silent snow on a winter's morning is more than recompense for the myr...